602 FRINGILIID^. 



claws dusky " (Audubon). Total length 6*5 inches, culmen 0-5, 

 wing 0*1, tail 2*75, tarsus 0-95. 



Adult female. Described by Dr. Coues as being like the male. 



Adult in winter plumage. Browner than in the summer plumage, 

 the head being brown like the back, and spotted with blackish ; the 

 fore part of the crown dull olive-yellow, with a blackish line extend- 

 ing from the base of the bill over the eye ; a line of pale ashy along 

 the sides of the crown, tinged with pale olive-yellow in the form of a 

 spot above the eye ; throat and breast ashy brownish, whiter 

 towards the chin ; sides of body and flanks uniform brown ; centre 

 of breast and abdomen white, slightly washed with olive-yellow. 



Messrs. Baird, Brewer, aud ltidgway speak of the yellow spot 

 above the eye being " reduced to a few feathers in spring dress." 

 Only one of the adult specimens in the British Museum shows 

 slight traces of it. 



Nab. Aleutian Islands, and Western America from Alaska to 

 Southern California. 



a. Ad. st. Aleutian Islands. Mr. Brandt. 



b. cj ad. sk. Vancouver's Island. J. K. Lord, Esq. [P.]. 

 c.Ad.sk. West side of Rocky Mts., J.K. Lord, Esq.. [P.J. 



British Columbia. 



d. Ad. sk. California (Bell). Sclater Coll. 



e. Imm. sk. California. Sclater Coll. 



f. Imm. sk. California. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



g. S ad.sk. Red Bluff, N. California, March U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 



18 (C. H. Townsend; Sm. 



no. 98322). 

 h. $ ad. sk. San Bernardino, California, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



April 5, 1884(i2. B. Herron). [P.]. 

 i. k. cJ ad. ; I, m. Mountains near Kernville, U.S. Nat. Mus. [P.]. 

 $ ad. sk. California (//. W. Hen- 



shaw; Sm. nos. 72163-4, 



72167-8). 

 n. $ ad. sk. Fort Tejon, California, Oct. 24 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(J. Xantus ; Sm. no. 25675). 



4. Zonotrichia vulcani. 



Zonotrichia vulcani, Boucard, P. Z. S. 1878, p. 57, pi. 4 ; Salvin 

 fy Oodman, Biol. Cent/:- Amer., Aves,i. p. 371, pi. xxvi. fig. 2 (1883). 



Junco vulcani, Bich/w. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 225 (1875) ; id. 

 op. cit. v. p. 495 (1883). 



Adult male. General colour above dull olive-brown, the mantle 

 aud upper back mottled with broad black triangular spots at the 

 ends of tho feathers ; lower back and rump uniform ; scapulars like 

 the back and similarly spotted ; lesser wing-coverts ashy olive- 

 brown ; median and greater coverts dark brown, edged with olive- 

 brown, slightly rufescent on the latter : bastard-wing, primary- 

 coverts, and quills dusky brown, edged with ashy olive, browner 

 on tho secondaries, which have also broader margins ; upper tail- 

 coverts brown ; tail-feathers dark brown, edged with olive-brown ; 

 crown of head and hind neck uniform dull slaty brown, slightly 



